An acount of the event that day...
Friends and neighbors rushed to help. William Bahler grabbed an aluminum baseball bat and slammed it into the dog’s back.
Titan (the dog) barely noticed.
Bahler kept swinging, striking with full force the dog’s back and rear.
As Bahler tired, another friend, Alan Clinansmith, took the bat.
“We must have hit the dog at least 40 times,” said Clinansmith, who recently took the dog in while trying to find him a new home. “No human could have survived that.”
Then someone else got a noose around the dog’s neck and pulled it tight. Another person tied a strap around the dog’s hind quarters.
Witnesses said the struggle continued for 20 or 30 minutes. Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office deputies said they arrived at the home on Southeast 172nd Avenue within five minutes of receiving a call.
All the while the dog had the girl in its jaw grip. She will undgo reconstructive surgery while no doubt pitbull lovers on FreeRepublic will write nice things about pitbulls, claiming they are just like other dogs.
The veterinarian that is handling the case has examined the body and determined that the dog is an American Bulldog, which is not a pit bull, no matter how many times you or an “expert” reporter calls it one.
This dog’s temperament was not known, as it was “new to the home”. It should not have been left where it could get around any children or people it hadn’t been introduced to yet without supervision.
Why is it these stories keep running? Because no one seems to know a dingo from a doorknob, and they’re all really excited about spreading the news.
It’s always interesting to see the reactions when confronted with breeds other than pit bulls, like the golden retriever that “ate” the chihuahua and was euthanized for being too aggressive: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137878/posts
Amazingly, there are people out there that actually believe Golden Retrievers are all good dogs, incapable of doing anything other than wagging their tails and fetching waterfowl. What people seem to misunderstand is that we are talking about dogs, not people. They don’t know what they are. They just react to their environment, and any dog can be vicious. They don’t have morals, and cannot tell the difference between right and wrong like humans can. Many of the frou frou breeds get away with being vicious because they look cute when they bare their teeth.